Saturday, December 15, 2012

The first letter is your typical senseless fawning piece of meaningless drivel that always seems to get published in the Age when Leunig comes under attack for one of his offensive assaults on the Jews. Let's hope that Malcolm Chalmers never has to see the reflection of an Iranian made missile coming at him in his mirror.

LEUNIG holds a mirror up to society. Those who condemn the cartoonist don't like, or fear, the reflections.

Not to mention that if he went any further, the Age probably wouldn't publish it or would heavily censor it as it has done recently with other correspondence about its favourite resident Jew basher cartoonist.

And Leunig is not only a Jew basher from way back but he has a record of trying to justify his attacks with gobbledygook, like this rant from back in 2006 - Australian cartoonist on Israel.

When I first read the headline I swear I thought it said Australian con artist on Israel and, as I read through his rambling duck drek of a foamy mouthed rant, I couldn't help but be amused (which is what good cartoonists aspire to, isn't it).

I mean, get a load of his final paragraph:-

If society no longer wants troublesome, disturbing cartoonists who take
improbable positions, so be it. But let's not hear any more of Pastor
Martin Neimoller's lament: "First they came for the Jews and I did not
speak out because I was not a Jew." What sort of a person will dare to
speak out? Probably not a perfect one. Maybe even an idiot.

So there you have it. Leunig is not only a nasty piece of work and a hypocrite to boot but by his own admission, he's an idiot too!

How does a country deal with failed or
failing state authority on four of its borders — Gaza, South Lebanon, Syria and
the Sinai Desert of Egypt — each of which is now crawling with nonstate actors
nested among civilians and armed with rockets. How should Israel and its
friends think about this “Israeli experience” and connect it with the
ever-present question of Israeli-Palestinian peace?

What a pity it is
that the many so-called experts on the conflict simply won't understand the complexities
of the situation and the nasty neighborhood within which Israel, for all of its
faults, stands out as a beacon of democracy?

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

If the Age newspaper wasn't covering for its Jew bashing cartoonist Leunig this excellent response from Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich is to the Fairfax Media anti-semitic cartoon scandal would have been published in its own pages and not in today's Australian -
Comparing Nazis to Israelis is unacceptable

The Anti-Defamation Commission, a human rights organisation, felt that it could not tolerate such inexcusable expression.

It asked The Age for an opportunity to provide a balancing response to Leunig's cartoon after it was directly attacked in another opinion piece that saw nothing troubling about Leunig's cartoon and instead accused the Jewish community of thoughtlessness and bitterness.

The ADC was told that The Age would not publish its objections because its claims about the cartoon were unreasonable.

So Leunig's "First they came for the Palestinians" is OK while offering a counterpoint is unreasonable.

On the very day on which it published cartoonist Michael Leunig's pithy explanation as to why he discriminates against an Israel which defends its citizens against the war crimes of Palestinian terrorism, this item also appeared in the Age: Netanyahu denounces 'deafening silence' on Hamas.

Speaking
to foreign reporters, Mr Netanyahu accused the international community of
double standards, condemning settlements that have not yet been built in the
West Bank while standing quiet during a historic visit to the Gaza Strip by the
exiled leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshal.

Making
his first trip to the Hamas-ruled territory at the weekend, Mr Meshal delivered
a series of speeches to throngs of supporters vowing to wipe Israel off the
map. The visit underscored the rising clout of Hamas and regional acceptance
since its eight-day conflict with Israel last month.

Mr
Netanyahu also directed his anger at the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas,
for not speaking out.

"This
weekend the leader of Hamas, sitting next to the Hamas leader of Gaza, a man
who praised Osama Bin Laden, this weekend openly called for the destruction of
Israel. Where was the outrage? Where were the UN resolutions? Where was
President Abbas?" Mr Netanyahu asked.

GAZA:
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, making his first ever visit to the Gaza Strip,
vowed on Saturday never to recognize Israel and said his Islamist group would
never abandon its claim to all Israeli territory.

“Palestine
is ours from the river to the sea and from the south to the north. There will
be no concession on an inch of the land,” he told a sea of supporters at an
open-air rally, the highlight of his three-day stay in Gaza.

“We will
never recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli occupation and therefore there is
no legitimacy for Israel, no matter how long it will take.”

This is the same Meshaal who last month was interviewed by CNN's Christiane Amanpour and lied:

In an exclusive interview with CNN’s, Christiane Amanpour,
in the Egyptian Capital, Cairo, head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled
Mashal, stated that his movement is not behind the Tel Aviv bombing that took
place Wednesday, and confirmed that Hamas accepts a Palestinian State in the
1967 territory, and is willing to join the nonviolent resistance.

In the last century another leader who was also an enemy of the Jews lied to the world about his intentions. Only fools like Leunig would accept such treachery to justify their attacks on the only true democracy in the region and its people. Try ducking out of that one!